The traditional way to make a random number is to apply a pseudo-random
number generator [[PRNG]] to the time. More crypto-savvy PRNG's use
mouse-clicks and keyboard timings, coupled with samplings of the real-time
clock (in BCD mode) and storings of a seed value. /dev/random under Mandrake
was imractically slow for my taste, though, probably because it was WAITing
for those events or some fool thing. I know this, because it was faster
under X-Windows. For my purposes, I wrote my own, and it was faster than
/dev/random (or was it /dev/noise) in BASIC, FCOL. I broke the DVD for
Mandrake on purpose.
"David Goodman" <dgoodmanny(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:480eb3150902201826m7e13d30dod700e3c8eec354c2@mail.gmail.com...
Isn't the traditional way to link to some outside
number--parimutual
handle, stock market figures, whatever.
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 9:18 PM, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/2/21 Kat Walsh
<kat(a)mindspillage.org>rg>:
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Oskar
Sigvardsson
<oskarsigvardsson(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:38 AM, Judson Dunn
<cohesion(a)sleepyhead.org>
wrote:
> For your comedy pleasure :)
>
>
http://xkcd.com/545/
>
> chaos! :)
Ahh, but Black-Hat Man hasn't anticipated our response! We'd delete
the article on grounds of notability!
That's a boring response -- I would just insert a template that can
display either an odd or an even number of words dependent on
something outside the article itself...
-Kat
Unless template code has a random function I can't see a way to do it.
Even {{REVISIONID}} {{PAGESIZE:page
name}}{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}{{NUMBEROFUSERS}}{{NUMBEROFEDITS}}{{NUMBERINGROUP:groupname}}
wouldn't quite be ungameable.
--
geni
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